[ltp] T30 - RH8: Docking station blows away my mouse wheel (also Port Replicator) SOLVED

[Whil Hentzen]

This is silly.

OK, I tried the modprobe thing. Didn't help at all.

But while fidgeting at the back of the docking station, I notice (again)
that there are two USB ports. Why would one be any different than the
other? No reason 't'all, right?

So I unplugged from the top USB port and plugged into the one
underneath, and lo and behold.... the mouse works. The wheel works. And
now I can get back to work! 

Whil

(BTW, I _did_ restart everything just to make sure. The only thing that
happened this time is that the 3 button mouse was detected as removed -
but the 5 button mouse WAS recongized!)

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:54, D. Sen wrote:
> To get the mouse working through the USB port on my port replicator, I 
> have to go through the following cycle everyday:
> 
> 1) Connect the laptop to the port-replicator and bring it out of 
> suspend/sleep mode
> 
> 2) Disconnect the mouse from the port-replicator's USB port
> 
> 3) Type 'modprobe -r usbmouse'
> 
> 4) Reconnect the mouse to the port replicator's USB port
> 
> 5) Once in a while I have to switch back to a virtual terminal 
> (cntrl+alt+Fx) and back to X (cntrl+alt+F7) to get the mouse working on 
> X again.
> 
> Its a hassle, I would ideally like to avoid but I havent found a way 
> around it yet. I have thought of adding 'modprobe -r usbmouse' to my apm 
> scripts....
> 
> 
> 
> Whil Hentzen wrote:
> >>The wheel does not work when you connect it to the ps2 port of the docking
> >>station because you are expecting a normal 3 button mouse there (e.g.
> >>normally the built-in mouse) and not a 5/7 button intellimouse.
> > 
> > 
> > Hmmmm, bummer, bummer. Guess I'll have to call up IBM to see about
> > getting a new docking station.
> > 
> > So if I configured the PS2 port to see a 5/7 button intellimouse? Do you
> > know which of the two mice - mouse0 or mouse 1 - in my etc config?
> > Neither of them make much sense to me....
> > 
> > Whil
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> D. Sen,
> http://www.auditorymodels.org/~dsen
> 
>